In the fall of the year

She flew across the ocean

To Ireland, the land of her fathers

When we said goodbye, a tear was in her eye

I lost her then and there, my Irish angel



The first letter came, she said she loved everything

And how much she wished I was there with her

She wrote it on the hill, and then I shared her Irish rain

The summer in my mind, my Irish angel

I wrote her back and then

There was no second letter

Just the silence of the snow that fell around me

I let her down, I know

The day I let her go

Now she's found someone else, my Irish angel



When I first saw her, my heart went into spinning

When they speak of love they call it falling

It was like I held my breath 'til I laid eyes on her again

So beautiful, she was my Irish angel

And when the storm at last, turned to a stormy kiss

I thought I knew the chance that I was takin

And all I never knew, love as strong as this

Or what it was, to feel my own heart breaking



So now I raise a glass and then I raise another

One to forget and one to remember

And one just to dream, of how things could have been,

If I hadn't lost my Irish angel